I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
RICHARD DAWKINSIndeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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